Wadhurst United Tigers vs Tonbridge Rangers FC
2 - 6
04 February 2018 · Crowborough & District Junior Football League<br>U15A
Home league match played on 04 February 2018.
Kicked off at 12:30 PM
2-6
vs Tonbridge Rangers FC
Home league match
A fantastic game today and although the score-line shows a big loss, luck wasn't on our side and I think if things had gone a bit differently in the later 1st half we could have had a more even finishing score. We had a more "attacking" formation that was actually a 3-1-2-2-2 (shown as 3-5-2) but with the first 2 wide.
Two things showed our weakness, 1. playing balls through the middle and not using the wings and 2. Taking goal kicks and losing the ball 70-80% of the time. This we need to get to grips with.
Having said that we played great attacking football and we dominated the game for the first 30 minutes and put the opponents under pressure. The first goal came from a cracking header from Max coming up from a superb corner taken by Ben O. after 12 minutes. The second goal came at 24 minutes from an amazing strike by Hugo who was far out on the left side, putting us 2 goals up and the opponents frazzled, until they finally got one back after 30 minutes.
I think after this we started to break up, maybe formation, tackles and errors leading to Tonbridge scoring again at 37minutes and further goal just before the 1st half whistle, leaving us a goal behind at half time 2-3
We tired in the second half and held them off for the first 20 minutes but with their fresh subs they got a further goal and although we didn't give up we saw no return and they put a further 2 goals in succession after 70 minutes both picked up from our goal kicks.
We had some great opportunities with some well planted corners and free kicks from Ben O. and for that reason Ben O gets a well deserved Man of the Match. but must mention some huge saves by our keeper, at least 2 great strikes and positional play from Jake and great work from Ben Bates, but well done to everyone for an amazingly enjoyable game. I didn't record the friendly against Tonbridge Rangers that we played on 7th January as the weather was awful and we lost badly maybe 8 or 9 -0 just scraping a team together, so today was a great result!